Bricksy: Building Banksy

Bricksy: Building Banksy

Award-winning photographer Jeff Friesen recently released his latest work of LEGO-art. He created the 50 States of LEGO last year, and just as amusing are his LEGO reproductions of Banksy graffiti art. The Bricksy series includes 20 LEGO dioramas recreating iconic Banksy works, each with a reference thumbnail of an original Banksy piece.

Friesen says that this series developed off another called LEGO London. “I wanted to feature one of Banksy’s works in LEGO London but it was hard to settle on which one, so I started doing a separate Banksy series. LEGO is an unlikely medium for duplicating gritty street scenes and that’s part of the appeal,” Friesen said.

In these tongue-in-cheek accounts, Friesen literally builds on the most prevalent Banksy pieces, such as Balloon Girl, to create underground LEGO street art. Classic images such as Kissing Coppers, Naked Man and Maid in London are all reimagined in LEGO form.

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